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ATI TV Wonder VE

Tv Tuner
Analog VideoIn

Win95 Win98 Win2K WinXP
Vista? NT4? ~~MAC~~ Linux
*based on user reports.

PCI

$50

6.1 (6.0)
74 votes

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Description (from the manufacturer site)

Watch TV on your PC
Get interactive TV listings with no monthly fee
Capture motion video and still images
Schedule and record TV programs
Scan channels at a glance
Zoom in on the action
Monitor closed captioning for Hot Words1
Play audio and video CDs2

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This card worked On my 2.8 INTEL celeron under windows 98 and XP_ pro

this card failed with standard ATI drivers and software on my AMD64+3500 under XP pro the only way I got it to work was use DEscaler and the drivers they recomend.

ATI drivers & support are some of the worst I have seen, Their media center is crap. Will never buy ATI product again.

check out newegg.com for good priced tv tunner cards, and I would stay away from ATI's

Comments posted by jeff from United States, March 04, 2007:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 3 of 10.

I use this card in an older PIII 600MHz PC mostly for watching video from external sources (VCR, DVD player, etc.). Fought with it a while after installing because every piece of TV software I tried, including the bundled software, DScaler, etc. would fail with various errors referring to being unable to create the overlay or the overlay not being supported.

Searching around turned up many many hits on similar errors, but with no real resolutions for the most part. Finally determined that the problem was the onboard Matrox G100 video chip on this old PC doesn't support overlays at all.

One solution would be to install a PCI video card, but I would have had to go back to an ISA sound card to free up a PCI slot, which I didn't want to do. Thankfully I tried iuVCR which was mentioned in another post here. Apparently iuVCR doesn't need to use an overlay for it's preview feature, so I just use that for watching videos, etc. from this card.

Once all the above was sorted out, it's been working great since.

Comments posted by oogla from United States, July 12, 2006:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 7 of 10.

I hate whiners but can't resist this one.

I confirm just about all the negatives seen on this post on 3 os's and 4 pc's.

"They havent done their homework" or "haven't followed the correct procedures" is a common comment of young software developers without business or marketing experience.

How about those Nvidia updates - one download does everything - no homework required !!. No order to follow, no multiple drivers and even better - they work.

Which one would you buy? Which one do you think wins in the open market? I've already persuaded dozens of people and at least 2 pc service companies out of purchasing ATI anything. And I'm a Canadian and former major ATI stockholder.

Comments posted by Roy McLeod from Canada, July 04, 2006:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 1 of 10.

Two things you MUST KNOW when using this card:

1 - DO NOT USE ANY DRIVER BY ATI FOR THIS CARD. That being said, try the BT8x8 wincap drivers (google search)

2 - Once your BT8x8 drivers are installed try using the free program DScaler for viewing TV. (Of late, DScaler's capture ability is improving also, ver. 4.1.14) Again stay away from anything with "ATI" in it.

I have used this setup to run this card reliably on my system for years now. It's a solid card with bad software support. (Although I think ATI does make good products, it just dropped the ball on this one).

Hope this helps the bargain/ebay hunters out there.

Comments posted by Dan from United States, January 02, 2006:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10.

This card is a peice of crap. Great support, you can even get it to work in linux, but, if you expect tolerable quality, look elsewhere. Even at 720x480 resolution, it looks like the video is AT MOST 320x240 internally being resized upwards with the lowest quality linear filter they could find. I'd give it a lower rating because of the horrible quality, but, the one thing it has going for it is the fact that you'd be hard pressed to find a thing it won't work in. The fact is, the VE is supposed to be their low end model, but, from what I've seen of their previous tuners, I wouldn't expect great quality from the non-VE either. MAYBE the HDTV version. Maybe. I still would recommend you look elsewhere if you want clear video.

BTW, even though this is made by ATI, it doesn't know or even care what video card you use. It's impossible for it to make any difference if you have a Geforce or a Radeon. Anyone suspecting their problems lay here, look elsewhere. Probably something went wrong in driver installation and I'd recommend you remove the drivers and reinstall. Failing that, try the free WDM drivers instead of ATI's drivers.

Comments posted by Nazo from United States, August 06, 2005:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux - Rated: 5 of 10.

I have owned this TV tuner for the past year, and performance has been up and down. At first, the performance was great; there wasn't even any lag between audio and video. However, when I updated the drivers and MMC software, the problems started. It began freezing in the middle of broadcasts, and whenever I tried to close the program it would just sit there and hang in the background. Very frustrating to hear the sound but not be able to watch the show. What a pain in the ass; when I went to shutdown my computer it would just sit there on the shutdown screen and not actually shutdown. Finally, I read down the suggestions that people had here, and I seem to finally have found one that works. I installed WDM drivers and am currently using WinDVR 3 instead of the supplied ATI software and drivers. It is working like a charm now; hopefully it'll stay that way.

I give the card a rating of 7/10, but I give the hacks at ATI who made the incredibly crappy software and drivers a 1/10. In other words, if you buy this card, definately use different drivers and software, especially if you have upgraded to Service Pack 2.

Comments posted by Jon from United States, May 09, 2005:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 7 of 10.

i have g fore graphics card..and an ati capture card and the tv just keeps freezing...the sales person told me they were campatible...but i think not. through a process of elimination i cometo this conclusion...but if any body knows a fix..i'd be thankful. :(

Comments posted by rocparis from Canada, July 20, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating.

Nice Card, Before you install it go to ATI's website and download the latest drivers.
DO NOT use the MMC software or lockups will happin...
install the drivers, then reboot...
Download WinDvr 3, I havent had a glitch on this card after 3 mobo's eh...
Good Luck

Comments posted by PinHead from United States, July 19, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10.

I have read the comments in here and I decided to purchase this card.
When I recieved it,I loaded the drivers and TV program that came with it.TV would work sometimes and capturing,forget it.
Lots of freezing and only capture with vcd mode(sucks).At this point I would give this card a 4/10.

Now I have downloaded a program called iuVCR and kept the drivers that came with the ATI card,iuVCR works excellent,I get all the channels,captures TV and Composite(vhs or cam)or any anolog device with no problems.
I use PICVideo or Huffyuv codecs for capturing,like I said,it works excellent for the price I paid($60).
I now give this card a 10/10

http://www.iulabs.com/index.shtml
http://www.divx-digest.com/software/huffyuv.html
http://www.jpg.com/picvideomjpeg.htm

Comments posted by W from Canada, April 24, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10.

This card works fine under every windows I have thrown at it, and Linux, and
even FreeBSD. Those of you who can't get it to work are suffering from one of
two things, and haven't done your homework well enough. There are two
things that will make this card not work:

1) Having ATI's MMC (in any version) within a 10 mile radius of your PC. Do
NOT use this software if you expect this card to work. In fact, if you install it,
you likely will see the stability issues that many of the users here mention.
instead use the btwincap drivers found at http://btwincap.sourceforge.net.
These work for all BrookTree/Conexant bt8x8 based capture cards, and are
*WAY* better than the crappy ones ATI gives you. They even let you capture
at 720x480 NTSC ;)

2) Crappy hardware. This little guy works the PCI bus in a desktop PC just
about as fast as it will go when capturing at 720x480 (Yes, this card is
perfectly capable of capturing DVD res video, but not with ATI's broken
software ...), and even at the lower resolutions. I have had many computers
with this card in them. 99% of the time if you have a VIA chipset on your
motherboard (Especially the KTx33 line) and have this card installed, you
*will* see all sorts of random lockups and other behaviour that is just part of
running crappy VIA chipsets. For AMD, buy an nForce based board. For intel,
buy Intel (Duh!).

So, I hope this helps someone who comes along and thinks that this card is
bad just because most people don't know how to make it work. It's not esy to
do mind you ... It took me a couple of years of on again off again effort to
glean the information in the two paragraphs above :)

Enjoy

Comments posted by Spike Spiegel from United States, April 10, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux - Rated: 7 of 10.

I hereby retract my earlier review where I gave this card a 7. Now, after having the card a month, if I could give it a zero, I would. I think a rating of 1 is way too high.

DO NOT GET THIS CARD

It has almost totally destroyed my win98se PC, which I need to finish my schoolwork this semester. I now have frequent crashes, system freezes, blue screens, and many apps will not open. No USB devices will work most of the time. This card is a gremlin sent to attack your PC.

If uninstalled, the system crashes in one way,when reinstalled in another. Once you use this card, your computer will never work again (if win98se at least).

Comments posted by Gene A. Townsend from United States, April 09, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 1 of 10.

ok guys heres my exp. i had it in my one system that had a msi mobo, and a xp 2000+ with a nivida g force . it would ffreeze like crazy and wouldent like the 8.2 drivers. so i put it in my other pc msi board, duron 1.6 same nivida card and it ran in the 8.2V drivers aand i have had no problems with it.

Comments posted by james from United States, April 05, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10.

GREAT CARD! i use it mainly for converting home movies to digital. bought used $24 off of ebay. except for the mono sound on the tv tuner, this thing rocks! never ran into any problems. for technically inclined people, run the video line throught the composite jack, get an RCA audio to 3.5mm mini-stereo jack at radioshack, and run the stereo sound through your soundboard. that way, you can get good video from a cheap card while still having excellent stereo sound. just remember to switch the recording volume control to line-in.

Comments posted by david chui from United States, April 04, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10.

Bought this card over a year ago and still have not been able to get it to work reliably under Win2K or Win98 - even with ATI drivers and the ATI-TV program. Picture freezes and/or it will freeze up the machine. I suspect that it conflicts with my video card (NDVIDA) or sound card. Support sucks rocks.

Ever since I installed this card I have experienced random system freezes. I suspect that this card is the cause.

I will never buy another ATI product again.

Comments posted by CrazyFool from United States, March 29, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? ~~Win98~~ ~~Win2K~~ WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 1 of 10.

I just bougtht this card for my old win98se PC system (700 Celeron), to replace an old dieing Pinnacle Studio MP-10, primarily for making VCD's of old TV shows, and other stuff. Been eyeing it for some time at $40 with rebate. This was despite so many negative comments on this board, mostly NOT directed at win98se.

The card and included software (v7.9) works very well on my system. VCD quality is clearly improved over my previous antique parallel port device. If only I hadn't messed around with the original install. After dickering with things for a week over spring break, trying to find software to allow SVCD capture/editing, changing drivers, changing software,I managed to mess up the old PC pretty thoroughly. Could no longer go online with dialup, due to that crazy open the TV in the browser software (which is junk anyway).

My PC is NOT able to do real time compression on the fly in 480 by 480 with any software/driver combination that I could locate. I'm happy with the card at VCD resolution, which I am content with at the moment. The incuded software lets me do continuous captures up to 48 hours long at VCD resolution, which is useful enough.

The editing software is another problem. The Womble mpeg-vcr is great, but unaffordable. Easy Video Splitter, or MPEG spliter (20 or 25 bucks) are all that I need to get the commercials out of the program material. I like the Easy Video Splitter, even though it can only handle a maximum file size of 2GB (3 hours of VCD). This isn't a big problem, since I can program two consequtive 3 hour recording sessions using MMC, as when inputting an entire 6 hour VHS is SLP mode. MPEG Splitter is a bit harder to use, although it may be more useful in the future when I can afford to go DVD recording.

I give a good overall rating due to the hardware and VCD qualty software, even though higher quality is wanted in the future. Now, I have much greater convenience in recording TV shows to VCD format, which far fewer wires strung across the room, and much better quality captures with very long recording capability.

Comments posted by Gene A. Townsend from United States, March 21, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating.

For the money, yeah its pretty good. I had little cash and wanted to do some capturing. If you can, spend a little extra cash and spring for a BETTER card. This one has its ups and its downs

Comments posted by Nasser from Other, March 15, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 5 of 10.

Basically this is the low end card meant to be about the best quality you can hope for for a card that is $50 and under. I tried it in Windows XP though I'm pretty sure it should work in any version of Windows from 95 up (not sure about NT4 though.) It uses a standard brooktree tuner, so you can get some WDM drivers from sourceforge for it if you run into problems with the drivers that come with it. This means it will probably work in Linux even if ATI doesn't have drivers for that since there are some somewhere on the internet that will work for sure (I didn't check truthfully.) When I installed it fresh on someone's computer which had a relatively new (and therefore still fairly clean) copy of Windows XP, no matter what I did, I could not get their software to work with it. Luckily since it uses WDM drivers (the ones that came with it work fine though I switched to the ones from sourceforge since the ATI software doesn't work to get a bit more out of my card) you can use any decent capture application you want. My personal preference being AVI_IO since capture files tend to get rather large, but I also sucessfully tried a few others such as Virtual VCR. When I tried capturing, I noticed that there was a horrible interlacing effect that was done if I tried to capture at full resolution (640x480 or 720x480 depending on software/hardware is the full resolution of s-video/composite) and the interlacing was showing up even in overlay mode, which means it's the hardware doing a quick and VERY dirty resize. This means that if you want a card for capturing at full resolution, look for a more high end card. You will have to stick with the standard resolution for capturing video through this card (which is good enough for most things anyway, especially since tapes and most tv signals only use half the full resolution that TVs are capable of anyway.) I give it 5 stars not because it is a terrible card but, because the quality is exactly what one would expect from a card in this price range with the exception and I deducted a bit since even uninstalling, updating, etc, nothing would make the ATI TV software work on a PC that still has a clean copy of windows. If even using the latest drivers from the website isn't enough, I consider it a bad sign. Probably most people won't run into this trouble, but it still shows that there are some bugs in there they need to work out.

Comments posted by Nazo from United States, February 05, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? ~~MAC~~ Linux? - Rated: 5 of 10.

I have used this card for capturing music videos for the scene for many years. It is excellent. Here's how to avoid problems. Go get IUVCR software to cap (http://www.iulabs.com). It is amazing I tell you. Also, use the drivers that THAT SITE RECOMMENDS!!! I cap straight to uncompressed, but at times using Huffy of Mjpeg is never a problem. After you cap, if you are converting to svcd, do an ivtc on the file (if the video is ivtcable, most music vids are). Using digital cable and this card, along with mp3 for replacement audio, I have been able to create files over years that continuously have people in amazement (svcd files look as good as dvd bought in stores). When they find out I use this card (either from me personally or from the .nfo) they are even more amazed. This card has met my every need and would not hesitate to recommend it to anyone. It does not degrade the input signal, even in the least, as long as you are using uncompressed or a lossles codec such as huffy. Then you add you "tricks" to the capped files using vdub, tmpgenc or both. End up with beauty!

Comments posted by KoolG from United States, January 23, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10.

this card captures nice if you can get it to work. ati SUCKS. I finally stumbled on to a site that actually has something worthwile.http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/
So far this seems to work nicely in xp. no more capture with ulead or other then reboot to use ati tv. also i found that updating to latest ati drivers is the worst thing to do. the people at ati are retards.sure buy an ati video card and it will work. hey go to their trade in site. i can trade me nvidia card in on a radeon 9800 and get the 9800 for a $100 bucks more than i can at walmart.duhh! they can't even support a capture card what happens when you toss away $350 on another useless piece of junk. anyways the site above has the driver and info about the conexant chipset ati uses. check it out and dont install any ati drivers higher than 7.9

Comments posted by haywuud from United States, January 22, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 3 of 10.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;817589

Hey guys, here's what I found at another site http://www.videocard-forum.com/ati/ATI_TV_Wonder_Pro_fix_needed_161717.html problably found that we might be looking for for those using winXP. I'm going to check it out. YOu must find the file http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jt007/TUNERFIX.exe
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;817589

Let me know how it go.

Comments posted by Asia from Other, January 11, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating.

Paid $59 for the VE card plus a wireless RF remote direct from ATI (free shipping to boot) just before Christmas 2003. Thought this was a great deal. Installed with only a few problems on my Win98SE Pentium 4 2.53 GHz computer with a Radeon 9000 Video card. The TV wonder card was shipped with the 7.9 drivers. Had periodic system hangs when the MMC software was running the menu bar on right side of display. Finally figured out how to prevent that menu from loading when Windows loads, and things were sort of stable. More blue screens than normal, but usually occurred only during shutdown and didn't seem to corrupt anything. (BTW, their PC check utility is a joke - according to their utility, my P4 is not MMX compatible and Direct-X is not installed correctly. However, running DXDIAG showed no problems whatsoever, and I have no problems with other Direct-X apps, so it's ATI's problem, not my PC's.)

When I decided to upgrade to the 8.8 drivers posted on their web site, suddenly I could not launch the TV application any more. It would just display the splash screen and die with no error message or anything. Uninstalling 8.8 and reinstalling the old 7.9 drivers got my TV back, but now my Digital VCR function is broken. When it is time for it to start recording a scheduled program, a window pops up saying "ATISCHED caused an invalid page fault in MFC42.DLL". So, no digital VCR any more which was a really cool feature. I tried uninstalling all the ATI software and reinstalling it, but same results.

Another interesting thing - when I play back a (DVD) .VOB file using the included ATI file player and I have TV-out enabled (mind you, my video card is ATI also) the PC displays the DVD correctly, but the TV just has a black box displayed where the video is supposed to be. However, when I play the DVD using PowerDVD (a non-ATI app), both the PC and TV display correctly. Now, wouldn't you think that ATI could figure out how to display video on their OWN RADEON VIDEO CARD!??!??!

I think the card has great video quality and is a great value. When it all works, it's great. But I always have to WONDER if my PC is going to crash now that I have it installed. Hey - maybe that's where they got the name from. :-)

I used to be a big ATI fan until I bought this TV Wonder VE card.

Comments posted by DustySander from Other, January 08, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 2 of 10.

XP users beware! As suggested on the forum, I went to the ATI website to download the latest drivers and software. Everything went fine for a little while. After a watching TV for a couple hours while doing work, my computer re-boots all of a sudden. This in turn happens another two times while trying different software and other drivers. After the third time of crashing a stable system (before ATI crap), I decided to return the TV tuner card and get my money back. The only thing I can figure out is either A) TV Wonder VE didn't like my AMD Athlon XP, or B) the TV Wonder VE didn't like my nVdia GeForce graphics card. Either way, I should not have been having thes problems. Now I am in the market for another card. I wished I had read the forum posts prior to attempting to buy and use this card.

Comments posted by Carney from Other, January 01, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 2 of 10.

This card is crap (truck-stop crap). Even if you think your system meets all the requirements DON'T BUY THIS CARD. To my dismay I discovered after three reinstalls, driver updates, and running the diagnostic software that the card conflicts with my existing (non-ATI) video card. Why would ATI not advertise this subtle, albeit, critical requirement?! Because they're a bunch of busters posing as technologists. ATI is now #3 on my *&%%#@ list (between Microsoft and Ohio State)

Comments posted by abr from Other, December 30, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 1 of 10.

First, both these setups have worked my system setup:
AthlonXP 2500+
Abit NF7-S V2.0
512MB PC2100 Memory

1.6 Ghz Athlon (not XP)
MSI K7T PRO-2
512MB PC2100 Memory

Both were tried in Windows 2000 and XP

It did NOT work on:
K6-III 450
Tyan motherboard
256MB memory.

It seemed to be a conflict of the motherboard (Win2k).

Now, my review.

If you can get by without the latest DirectX, it works great with version 7.1 of the MMC software (DX8.1). It's fast, records well, looks good and is stable. It has some slight video corruption at times, but it's not serious.

7.9 STINKS. But I can't get 7.1 to install with DirectX9.0. This add skin features (blech, not really important for functionality), and (1) slows down the software- it now takes at least half a second or more (usually more) to change a channel, that get's real annoying. Additionally the software doesn't shut down properly (ATI MMC remainins in the task manager, you have to end the task to start up the tuner again). Once it quit and didn't release the sound hooks, so I had to listen to channel 8 until I got sick of it and rebooted my computer. Aside from that, it's like the 7.1 software (i.e. quality is fair/good, reliability and speed is not.)

Don't even think of getting support from ATi, they have been less than useful, with one of their cards you want to find a good 3rd party support forum (probably good 3rd party drivers too).

Comments posted by Jim from Other, December 28, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 4 of 10.

Bought this card for $30 w/rebate. Believing the device to have been old tech I downloaded latest apps immediately after installation. This card currently records about 10 hours of TV per week. Quality is decent, audio is mono. Better than a VCR. I have an Athlon 1.2GHz w/768Mb, 120+80Gb HDs and DVD+/-RW.

For recording higher quality I use my Sony Digital8 between my VCR and PC w/FireWire. I plan on getting a better TV tuner/capture card with a new PC. And four more of these VE's for home net PCs to record EVERYTHING and view it anywhere in the house.

Comments posted by M Cordero from Other, December 18, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10.

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Analog VideoIn = Analog composite or/and SVHS video input
Video Card = If it is a Video Card/Graphic Card
Tv Tuner = Built-In TV-Tuner
Digital TV = Built-In Digital TV-Tuner
DV/Firewire = DV/Firewire/i.Link input
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MPEG1 hardware = Capture directly MPEG1(VCD) video using hardware*
MPEG2 hardware = Capture directly MPEG2(SVCD and DVD) video using hardware*
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